I promised to post excerpts every week, didn’t I? Well, here’s the first one. (No, you don’t get context.)

The odds of successfully breaking in to Didactics were not skewed in my favor. The building itself was designed to withstand a nuclear war. That wasn’t hyperbole: Didactics housed some of the most cutting-edge research facilities in the world, and as a privately owned company, it wasn’t constrained by federal spending limits.

There was no way I could get to the research areas. But I was pretty sure I could get to the library.